Fruit and vegetable cave.



CYRUS A. JULAN, OFMARSEBLUFFS, NEBRASKA.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CAVE.

T0 all whom it muy concern:A

Be it known that l, CYRUs A. JULIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marse Bluffs, in the county of Saunders and State of Nebraska, have invented'a new and useful Fruit and Vegetable Cave, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in subterranean chambers or cellars employed for preserving fruit, vegetables, milk, butter,- and other farm products and for similar purposes, and has for its object to produce a device of this character of improved construction and increased efliciency and utility.

With these and other obj ects in view, which I will Iappear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood 'that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a longitudinal. sectional elevation of the improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a lanview of the same. Fig. .3` is a sectional etail onthe line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Y

The improved device comprises an inclosed compartment 10, preferably of brick or similar material and of any desired size or shape, but preferably circular and arched at the top and disposed beneath the ground, as indi-v cated at 11. The com artment 10 is provided with a passage 12, eading downwardly thereinto, and provided with steps 13 and a hinged door 14 and also with a transverse aperture 15 near the door 14 and above the ground.

Rising from the compartment 10 is a chamber 16, `having a discharge 17, covered by a hood or cap 18, the cap and the door 14, together with a small portion of the side wall ofthe passage 12, being the only parts above the ground. A ventilator-tube 19 leads from the compartment 10 into the chamber 16, as shown.

The wallsof the compartment 10, chamber Specification of' Letters Patent.

Application filed April 20, 1905. Serial No. 256,581.

Patented Aug'. 1, 1905.

16, and passage 12 are of sufficient strength and thickness to withstand the pressure of the earth and will be lined with suitable moisture-resisting material, such as Portland cement or the like and indicated at 20, and a cement bottom will be provided for the oo mpartment, as indicated at 21.

Disposed eXteriorly of the compartment 10 are a plurality of conductor-passages 22,l connected at theI lower. ends, as at' 23, with the interior of the compartment at the bottom, as at 24, and terminating at the upper ends in the chamber 16, and similar conductor-passages 24, opening at their lower ends, as at 25, into the compartment near the top and leading at the upper ends into the chamber 16. IThe passages 22 and 24 serve as ventilators through lwhich, currents of air freely pass, as hereinafter described, and preferably of brick and built in with the compart'ment when the latter is constructed. Any required number of the ventilator-passages may be employed; but they will generally be arranged as shown with the shorter passages alternating with the longer passages and spaced at uniform distances apart. By this simple arrangement it will be obvious that'a free and rapid circulation of the air is provided for, so that a continuous change of the air is insured, whereby all foul odors are carried off and the requisite dryness and purity of the air is maintained.

The apparatus is simple in construction, Y

purposes.

. Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. In an apparatus of the class described,

an inclosed compartment havingv a passage leading thereinto, a closure to said passage, a ventilator leading from the upper part of said compartment, a ventilator leading from f the bottom of said compartment and terminatin near the top of the same, and a ventilator iileading from said compartment intermediately of its height and terminating near the top of same.-

2. lnan apparatus of the class described, an inclosed compartment having a passage leading thereinto, a closure to said passage,va ventilator leading from the upper part of said compartment, a chamber inclosing said ventilator and extending above the same and provided with a discharge-aperture, and one Chamber.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, an inelosed compartment having a passage leading thereinto, a closure to said passage, a ventilator leading from the upper part of said compartment, a chamber inelosing said ventilator and extending above the saine and provided with a discharge-aperture, one -or more ventilator-passages between the lower part of said Compartment and said chamber, andl one or more ventilator-passages between the intermediate portion of said oompartment and said chamber.

4. In an apparatus of the class described, a compartment formed of brick or like material and lined with a moisture-resisting Coating V and adaptedfo`r;ernbedding beneath the ground, a passage leading downwardly into said compartment and provided with a detaohable closure, a Chamber extending above said compartment and provided with an aperture opening above the ground, a ventilator leading from said compartment and terminating in said chamber, a pluralityT of ventilator-passages connecting the lower portion of said compartment with said chamber, and a plurality of ventilator-passages connecting the intermediate portion of said compartment with said chamber.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CYRUS A. JULIAN.

Witnesses H. D. MACKPRANG, C. M. SKINNER. 

